Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 2 | If Howard Wilkinson is prepared to accept less than the £2 million he paid Arsenal during the summer , Clough is keen to do business . |
| 3 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 4 | According to Lord Diplock it is improper to do this if the meaning of the statute is plain . |
| 5 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 6 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 7 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 8 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 9 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 10 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 11 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 12 | It is easy to become disheartened if the dace fail to respond after an hour or so , but stick at it , keeping the feed going in on the same line . |
| 13 | Since bats are considered by the Chinese to be symbols of good luck they are one creature that is likely to remain safe when the British hand over Hong Kong . |
| 14 | The police investigation into the missing money continues tomorrow with a meeting with the Charity Commissioners … but the supplies donated in good faith by thousands of people are likely to remain rotting until the mystery resolved . |
| 15 | This particular problem is likely to remain unsolved until a similar figure is recovered from an excavation site . |
| 16 | Of course some of them like doing one job more than others ; I 've got one gardener who likes doing nothing else but cutting grass — well , he 's quite welcome to do that because the rest of us are not fussy . |
| 17 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 18 | Choosing this road is likely to cost more than the first option , but you will at least ensure that your doors are the best that money can buy . |
| 19 | Although no single investor is supposed to have more than a 15 per cent holding the government has indicated that it may waive this requirement . |
| 20 | I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why . |
| 21 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 22 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 23 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 24 | It was feared that the proposed budget for general programmes , set at $345,500,000 for 1991 , was very likely to prove inadequate if the UNHCR assumed new responsibilities in areas which had witnessed a substantial displacement of refugees , including Liberia , Cambodia and the Western Sahara . |
| 25 | Whether or not we accept the particular characterization offered by opponent-process theory , it seems that conditioned suppression training is likely to involve more than the formation of a CS-shock association . |
| 26 | It may not always be possible to do this when a student writes an apparently nonsensical answer ; and you should try to find out if this is because the student has not studied the subject matter of the test sufficiently , or whether the lesson notes have not explained the subject adequately to the particular student . |
| 27 | It is unnecessary to give more than the following sketch of the widespread litigation which has attended the efforts made to bring this case to trial . |
| 28 | There can be no doubt that both in terms of the quantity and impact of the crimes examined the poor suffer more than the wealthy . |
| 29 | It was good to do that before the pressure came on . |
| 30 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |